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Welcome to the May edition of the E bulletin. Although many of you will be looking forward to the short working month we promise that if you find time to read this edition, you will not be disappointed!
With continuing talk of the credit crunch this month we bring you:
- Essential tips to help you manage a down turn
- The first of a two part series offering advice on succession planning
And bring you the latest news on:
- QED Consulting at the glamorous SFEDI Bafta Awards
- The expansion of Quantum Assessment Services
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35 tips for managing a down turn
With the credit-crunch biting and economic uncertainty all around, Jeremy Thorn looks at some of the key actions any business should consider.
Whether or not your business is facing a down-turn, or is even in one, managing in uncertain times takes special skills. But not everything need be bleak. Hard-earned experience from the past confirms that companies who can manage recession, depressed demand and even rising costs successfully, often emerge much stronger if they plan carefully.
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Succession Planning for Smaller Businesses Part 1
Business owners find it hard enough to establish their businesses and make them successful, without having to worry about how they might ever leave them!
But being trapped in your business is not a happy place to be. Too many owner-managers find themselves unerringly shackled to their businesses because they didn’t plan ahead. Once your business is up-and-running successfully, there may be no more important an issue to address than Succession Planning, with as long a time-scale for its execution as you can possibly manage.
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QED Consulting Entrepreneur Schools - ‘top of the class’
SFEDI National Award for QED Consulting, developers of the Entrepreneur Schools.
Top marks have been awarded to a series of innovative Entrepreneur Schools which are designed to increase business owners’ odds of success. The QED Entrepreneur Schools, developed and delivered by Doncaster-based QED Consulting, won the Enterprise Champion – Product or Programme category in the 2008 UK Enterprise Support Awards on Thursday 17th April.
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Latest News
Success and growth for Quantum Assessment Services (QAS)
Since the launch of Quantum Assessment Services’ (QAS) website last year and their recent success of becoming a SFEDI Centre of Excellence, the team is unsurprisingly growing! On the 1st May QED Consulting’s current Marketing Manager Rebecca Hughes is moving over to QAS to become the Business Development Manager and Consultant Mark Ellis, will be taking on the responsibility of Operations Manager.
QED Consulting is looking forward to see QAS continue to flourish! Watch this space!
Innovation at work
Last month Martijn Mugge, Director of QED Consulting and renowned expert in innovation and entrepreneurship shared the secrets of ‘innovation in the workplace’ at our April Seminar and Networking Lunch. We were delighted to welcome many familiar and new faces alike, with representatives from; The Digital Knowledge Exchange, DMBC, Foys, Primalec, ACS Doncaster, Cutler Communications, Yorkshire Bank, Handelsbanken, Eon Media, ITRM Chiropractors and Doncaster Chamber of Commerce. Thank you to everyone who joined us and we will keep you all fully informed of our future events. For further information please contact Rebecca Hughes on 01302 767896 or email her
Calendar dates for May
20th – Start of Chelsea Flower show
20th - Chartered Management Institute (CMI) East Midlands Regional Convention 2008 - Jeremy Thorn, President of QED Consulting is the Key Note Speaker who will be talking about leading organisational development 'Managing Talent' managers.org.uk/emconv
26th – Spring Bank Holiday
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